India should be included in all other important bodies including permanent seat in United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and G-8, advocates British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in a luncheon organised by his governing Labour Party's parliamentary Friends of India grouping at downing street in London for discussing on the issue of ‘global food price rising’ on Tuesday.
“Security Council without India cannot be a Security Council reflecting reality and a G8 without involving India cannot be a G-8” said brown to his delegate and minister friends.
It is not he first time Gordon has vigorously advocated India’s role in globe in terms of social, technological and economical aspects. Earlier, on his first visit to India Brown has strongly support to India by stating, “I support India's bid for a permanent place at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and to work with others on an expanded UN council.”
This time he was looking more cherished towards India as he said, “India should not be seen as part ‘of a low-pay world but a high-skills world” and suggested India to begin a “global new deal” as a major partner with esteemed international economic bodies like International Monetary Fund, G-8 or group of industrialised countries and UNSC.
Speaking on the old relationship of Britain to India, Brown said that Britain has been a traditional Indian ally and in terms of economic prospective, UK is the fifth largest foreign direct investor in India, while India is Britain’s second largest Asian investor and eighth largest investor.
“The trade between the two countries has grown by over 20 percent in just one year,” said Brown.
On the issue of global recession and food crisis, Grown said, “We need a new early warning system for the global economy so we can prevent the kind of credit crunch that we have had in the last few months. For this we need an international institution that demands the support of the Asian continent as well as Europe and America that can actually show it can be involved in crisis prevention as well as crisis resolution.”
Worrying over the hiking skills race Brown said, “A generation ago, a British prime minister had to worry about the global arms race. Today a British prime minister has to worry about the global skills race - because the nation that shows it can bring out the best in its people will be the great success story of the coming decades.” That’s why, British government has proposed an ambitious plan to expand Indian apprenticeships three times in the UK over the next decade.
On the issue of strengthening the relationship with India, Gordon said, “India and Britain were working together and this partnership is stronger than ever. It will strengthen in the years to come. It will not simply be a partnership for India and Britain. It will be partnership that will benefit the whole world.”
To heighten India’s present in the globe he cited that Britain is looking forward to working with the Indian government and the Indian people in a major programme of the reform of the international institutions that will recognise the rising importance of India in the world.
Several senior members of Brown’s cabinet including former foreign secretary and current justice secretary Jack Straw, Olympics minister Tessa Jowell, and leading British Indian businessmen, including Lard Swaraj Paul, bankers, techies and senior Labour politicians, including London mayor Ken Livingstone, former Labour leader and current British Council chairman Neil Kinnock were presented on the lunch program.
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